At MSC, when 70 and 910 played 469 and 1918, it really seemed like, between the pinning and the pushing 469 was in submission to the opposing alliance...at least for 20 seconds
They were tipped for 10 seconds and pushed around for many more. If an alliance is strong enough to be able to commit one robot to pinning 469 and especially strong enough to be able to pin 469 and the third robot defending the defender but primarily 469 for the 2.25 minutes while the other two robots are able to play 2 on 1 in or 2 on 0 in the home and middle zone and either starve the only free robot of balls or just keep it under a pick in the defending zone, then 469's alliance whoever that may be won't be able to score under much more effective circumstance than simply trying to outscore them or block their shots. However, to find a robot that can keep a robot like 469 pinned for an entire TWO matches is a heavy task to carry as a Curie alliance captain and even heavier to think of a robot that can play defense against two robots simultaneously so that there will be some kind of numerical advantage.This is why in my optimistic predictions I say that only three diverse robots with very strong defense and drives could forcibly outplay this alliance. The only way I could see this alliance of 469 and possibly 1114 losing is a whole lot of constant push battles keeping robots slow and balls out of the goal. It will not be a high scoring match like it the matches in MSC when Las Guerillas in some strange course of events find defeat.